Re: PATCH: zselect builtin.

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 8, 10:59am, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: PATCH: zselect builtin.
}
} > Aso you probably can't fully utilize select without non-blocking I/O.
} 
} I don't see this; you can already poll a blocking fd using a zero
} timeout.

The problem is not blocking reads, but blocking *writes*.

However, even non-blocking write is not sufficient if you can't find out
what subset of the bytes got written and try again with the remainder.

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